Digital memorials: classifications and design recommendations

Ueda, Gustavo; Monteiro, Luís Flávio Ferreira; Maciél, Cristiano; Pereira, Vinícius Carvalho

doi:10.5753/jis.2022.2567

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Dead Users’ Profiles on Facebook: Limited Interaction Beyond Human Existence

Trevisan

Pereira

2023

Interacting With Computers

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Death has become increasingly visible on social networks, especially after COVID-19, and Facebook addresses that with double standards: while some profiles remain active, others turn into memorials. This article investigates how Facebook’s system deals with dead users’ profiles either to support or restrict interactions concerning users’ deaths. Our qualitative analysis of data from 54 public profiles of people who died between June 2020 and March 2021 showed that (i) Facebook fails to communicate the criteria for transforming profiles into memorials; (ii) no information about their contacts of deceased users’ profiles is given; (iii) the frequency of interaction with memorials and with active profiles is different; (iv) profiles’ privacy settings shape interaction. Our results exemplify how a sociotechnical system influences people’s interactions with dead users’ profiles. We herein highlight implications for interaction design and evaluation, besides the need to consider interaction as existence, which raises big challenges to the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community.

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